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"FLEUR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a flower". |
Date "FLEUR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Common name for the film produced by Candida mycoderma and other species of yeasts which grows on wines of low alcohol content left exposed to the air. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Summit | Phrase: en flute; fleur deau. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FLEUR |
| Specialty definitions using "FLEUR": Goutte de Sang. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLEUR": safflower. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "FLEUR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (airiness), French (bloom, blossom, flower). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Fleur bleue (1971) La Fleur (1970) Fleur d'oseille (1968) À fleur de peau (1962) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| "Fleur rose & blanche" by Michaël Claude Commentary: "Macro d'une fleur rose & blanche." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "FLEUR" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 55.17% of the time. "FLEUR" is used about 29 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 55.17% | 16 | 87,710 |
| Noun (singular) | 44.83% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| "FLEUR" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a flower". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "FLEUR." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Fleur | Female | English | N/A |
| Fleuretta | Female | English | Fleur |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
Expression using "FLEUR": fleur deau. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "FLEUR": Fleur-de, Fleur-de-lille, fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lys. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
fleur de lis | 590 | de fabric fleur lis | 11 |
fleur | 302 | de fleur lis symbol | 11 |
delacour fleur | 56 | fleur petite | 11 |
fleur de | 54 | de fleur lotus | 10 |
fleur rose | 35 | cinéma de fleur lys | 10 |
fleur de sel | 32 | bain de fleur kiehls | 10 |
fleur bouquet | 21 | envoyer fleur | 9 |
la fleur | 21 | fleur mariage | 9 |
art clip de fleur lis | 18 | fleur plante à | 9 |
de fleur lis picture | 18 | nina ricci fleur de fleurs | 9 |
cinema de fleur lys | 16 | de fleur lis pattern | 9 |
belle fleur | 15 | et fleur jardin | 9 |
de fleur lys place | 15 | achat fleur | 8 |
fleur de lis stencil | 13 | composition fleur | 8 |
de elite fleur | 13 | de fleur livraison | 8 |
de design fleur lis | 12 | de fleur francisco lys san | 8 |
fleur de leis | 12 | fleur lys | 8 |
clipart de fleur lis | 12 | bouquet de fleur | 8 |
daniel fleur | 11 | envoi fleur | 8 |
mille fleur | 11 | chord fleur petite | 8 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "FLEUR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpatore (flag, fleur-de-lis, flower-de-luce, Iris, orris). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хералдична лилия (fleur-de-lis), перуника (flag, fleur-de-lis, flower-de-luce, orris). (various references) | |
Czech | kosatec (fleur-de-lis, flower-de-luce, Iris, sword-flag). (various references) | |
Danish | skimmel (flowers of wine, gray, grey, mildew, mould, moulds, white horse), hinde af skimmel (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
Dutch | kaamsel (flowers of wine), kaam (film, flowers of wine, pellicle, veil). (various references) | |
Finnish | kukinta (bloom, flowering), homeketto (flowers of wine), hiivaketto (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
French | fleur (flower), maladie de la fleur (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
German | Kahmigwerden (flowers of wine), Kahm (flowers of wine), Hautblidung (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
Greek | άνθηση (bloom, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | francia királyság, nõszirom (fleur-de-lis), nőszirom (flag, iris), bourbon liliom, írisz (flag, iris). (various references) | |
Italian | fioretta (flowers of wine), fiore del vino (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
Manx | cliogagh (fleur-de-lys, iris, wild iris, yellow flag). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eurflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | flor (bloom, blossom, flower, flowering), doença da flor (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
Russian | ирис (fleur-de-lis, flower-de-luce). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | floralna aplikacija na grbu francuskih kraljeva (fleur-de-lis). (various references) | |
Spanish | flor (bloom, blossom, flower, grain, head, pip, posy, self), nata del vino (flowers of wine). (various references) | |
Swedish | flor (crape, gauze, veil). (various references) | |
Turkish | zambak şeklinde arma (fleur-de-lis), zambak (flag, fleur-de-lis, lily), süsen çiçeği (fleur-de-lis). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ірис (fleur-de-lis, Iris, orris). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FLEUR": fleury. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "FLEUR": millefleur, siffleur. (additional references) | |
Words containing "FLEUR": enfleurage, enfleurages, millefleurs, siffleurs. (additional references) | |
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"FLEUR" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feur, flauer, flaur, Flear, fleart, fleug, fleurs, flior, fluer, flur, leur. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: flue, fuel, furl, lure, rule. | |
-2 letters: elf, fer, feu, flu, fur, leu, ref, rue. | |
-3 letters: ef, el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: earful, ferula, ferule, fleury, fluter, fouler, fueler, fuller, furled, furler, ireful, purfle, reflux, refuel, rueful, ruffle. | |
+2 letters: bluffer, careful, dareful, direful, earfuls, failure, fearful, ferrule, ferulae, ferulas, feruled, ferules, flaneur, flareup, flexure, floured, flouter, flubber, flueric, flukier, flunker, flusher, fluster, fluters, flutier, flutter, frenula, fretful, fuelers, fueller, fullers, fullery, fumbler, funeral, furlers, furless, gulfier, lucifer, muffler, ourself, purfled, purfles, refuels, refusal, refutal, restful, ruffled, ruffler, ruffles, tearful, truffle. | |
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